Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

Ed Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with an urgent referral are waiting to start cancer treatment on the NHS.

Ed Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the single longest wait for a patient to start cancer treatment on the NHS for each of the last three years.

Ed Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS cancer patients have waited longer than (a) 62 days, (b) 3 months, (c) 4 months, (d) 6 months and (e) 12 months in each of the last three years.

Will Quince: The following table shows the number of first treatments following an urgent suspected cancer referral, and the proportion that waited longer than the specified time:Number of patients treated who waited2020/212021/222022/23Over 62 days38,083 (26%)53,112 (31%)70,929 (39%)Over 3 months (>90 days)16,084 (11%)22,323 (13%)33,652 (18%)Over 4 months (>124 days)5,723 (4%)7,117 (4%)12,343 (7%)Over 6 months (>182 days)1,339 (1%)1,181 (1%)2,252 (1%)Over 12 months (>365 days)18 (0.01%)28 (0.02%)42 (0.02%)Total Treated148,280171,395182,454 Information on the number of people with an urgent referral waiting to start cancer treatment is not held in the format requested. Monthly information is published on the backlog of patients waiting longer than 62 days from urgent general practitioner referral for suspected cancer. This shows that there were 3,344 patients waiting past day 62 following an urgent suspected cancer referral with a decision to treat.We are unable to publicly disclose the longest wait for a patient to start cancer treatment on the National Health Service for each of the last three years as we cannot provide information which could be patient-identifiable, in line with established disclosure controls.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

Jim Shannon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of attacks by American Bully XL dogs in the last 12 months.

Trudy Harrison: From our assessment of publicly available data, it appears that the American XL Bully type dog has been disproportionately involved in fatal dog attacks in the past 12 months. This is why the Government is taking urgent action to bring forward a ban on XL Bully dog types before the end of this year.